Let's Get Avengerous

The purpose of this blog is to document all the "Avengerous" women in fiction - from TV around the world, to media such as games, movies, magazines and so on.

Today more than ever, girls and women need positive role models. The amount of un-positive role models out there is frightening.

Occasionally, I'll post "real world" heroines here, as well. I may also comment one girls and women who need to be slapped... 13 year old girls who beat up another girl because that girl kissed her boyfriend, women on welfare who keep on having children, and so on. Then there's the commercials where women participate in their own degredation. Spike TV, which has shows I like such as CSI, for example, also have crap like Manswers (how many boobs does it take to screw in a lightbulb, and there are actually four women gathered around in a circle with their silicon-huge breasts as if they are actually trying to use them to screw in a lightbulb...I just want to slap those women.

But mainly, I'll strictly stay with fiction!

Here's a pop quiz... did you know that Diana Rigg was not the first choice for Emma Peel? That honor goes to Elizabeth Shepherd. However, after several days of footage were shot, Shepherd was replaced. Unfortunately, none of her footage seems to still exist, but there are a few photos of her.

Note that she is wearing an orange leather outfit. This is because the color orange showed up as "black" better in black and white TV, then did color.

(This is from the first episode of The Avengers which starred a new partner to replace Honor Blackman's Cathy Gale, "The Town of No Return".)

All photos and screencaps shared in this blog maintain their original copyright. They are shown here only for educational purposes, to provide critical commentary on the event in question.